I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

I was wrong to try and impose something of my humanity on you, when being human never did me any good

Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold

The night is young, and by the grace of magic, so are we.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.